1. Outline of a shared online fire information system for S.E. Asia Chris Elvidge NOAA National Geophysical Data Center chris.elvidge@noaa.gov January 21, 2003

2. Current Situation Multiple data providers. Large numbers of interested parties. Value added products, such as smoke transport predictions, require combination of multiple data sources and may require operation of a model. The level of effort required to generate all the products of interest is cost prohibitive for any one country or agency.

3. On-Line Fire Information Systems Can provide interactive access to data. Can generate overlay displays of fires with user selected background maps or images. Can provide interactive links to models, such as HYSPLIT. Once a product suite is standardized, daily reports can be automatically generated in html or pdf format. This would be advantageous for the operational users. For example a daily report containing maps and images could be generated for Sumatra. This could be automatically delivered to a subscription list and could also be selected from a daily report list posted at a web site.

4. Examples of On-Line Fire Information Systems MAFF (S.E. Asia) http://www.affrc.go.jp/ANDES/ (graphical images of hotspots and fire risk)http://www.affrc.go.jp/ANDES/ MSS (Indonesia/Malaysia) http://www.nea.gov.sg/metsin/ (graphical images of haze and hotspots)http://www.nea.gov.sg/metsin/ MMS (Indonesia/Malaysia) http://www.kjc.gov.my/english/service/climate/fdrs1.html (Fire Danger Rating graphical images) http://www.kjc.gov.my/english/service/climate/fdrs1.html NOAA (USA) http://nhis7.wwb.noaa.gov/website/SSDFire/viewer.htm (ArcIMS - interactive display of hotspots from multiple sensors)http://nhis7.wwb.noaa.gov/website/SSDFire/viewer.htm USGS (USA) http://geomac2.cr.usgs.gov/ (ArcIMS – interactive overlay of hotspots and other geospatial data)http://geomac2.cr.usgs.gov/ IBAMA (Brazil) http://www.dpi.inpe.br/proarco/bdqueimadas/ (interactive overlay of hotspots and other geospatial data - INPE TerraLib with MySql)http://www.dpi.inpe.br/proarco/bdqueimadas/

5. What do we mean by SHARED? Data products drawn from multiple providers. There may be more than one service provider (for different geographical regions, languages, or user commuties). Share scripts, applets, API’s, models.

6. Shared Fire Information System Central Data Cache Model Fire Hot Spot Providers Burn Scar Map Providers Fire Risk Map Providers Numerical Weather Predictions Data Cache Service Provider Service Provider Users Geographical Subset

7. Shared Fire Information System On Demand Access to Remote Data Model Fire Hot Spot Providers Burn Scar Map Providers Fire Risk Map Providers Numerical Weather Predictions Service Provider User Servlet Responding to user request to display fire hotspots on fire risk map Servlet

8. Shared Fire Information System Local Data Cache Model Fire Hot Spot Providers Burn Scar Map Providers Fire Risk Map Providers Numerical Weather Predictions Service Provider Service Provider Users

9. Shared Fire Information System Daily Report Model Fire Hot Spot Providers Burn Scar Map Providers Fire Risk Map Providers Numerical Weather Predictions Service Provider Users Daily Reports (html or pdf)

10. Question: Does the group want to work on building a shared fire information system for S.E. Asia?